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Subject: Re: Help needed with security updates for Qt
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=E5=AE=8B=E6=96=87=E6=AD=A6 <iyzsong@gmail.com> skribis:

> Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> [...]
>>
>>> I'd like to try re-package qt5 with submodules, and drop QtWebEngine.
>>> As same as Debian and NixOS did.
>>
>> And Fedora.  Ricardo found this insightful discussion:
>>
>>   http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2015-February/019960=
.html
>>
>> +1 for removing QtWebEngine and thus have a snippet that removes the
>> bundled Chromium altogether.
> Well, by build with submodule tarballs [1], Qt5 will split into various
> packages:
>   qtbase, qtsvg, qtx11extras, etc.
> The current monolithic qt package will be deprecated.

Ah OK, didn=E2=80=99t know that.

> It seems that some hacks are needed, basically:
>   - when build:
>     Make a 'qt.conf' and union the releated 'lib' and 'mkspecs' for
>     qmake.  Should do in 'qmake-build-system'.
>     FYI: nixpkgs's recipes [2] and qmake reference [3].
>=20=20=20=20=20
>   - when run:
>     Set 'QT_PLUGIN_PATH' and other variables with wrapper and/or
>     profile envs.
>
> And I believe this have to be done if we want to package KDE5,
> since KF5 is a set of plugins for Qt.

Sounds like a good plan.  Thanks for looking into it!

Ludo=E2=80=99.